US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4157

On July 06 2016 00:50 farvacola wrote:
The voters who would find a characterization like that compelling are already not voting for Hillary

On July 06 2016 00:55 Plansix wrote:

I haven’t looked in a while, but the public opinion of the email and other investigations by congress have been super low almost all year. It’s like the GOP doesn’t understand that just harping on one thing for years at a time isn’t compelling to the general election voters. They just tune it out after a while, especially if its super boring like “Did not comply with best practices for securing classified emails.”

On July 06 2016 01:10 Seuss wrote:
The only way Clinton will lose is if democrats get complacent, which is a thing that could totally happen.

On July 06 2016 01:15 Mohdoo wrote:


Obama and Bernie will be enough to prevent this. Bernie won't likely be terribly active, but he'll throw enough shit out there to get decent turnout. I think Obama will be campaigning heavily. If nothing else, the Bernie machine is good at getting people to vote.

On July 06 2016 01:18 Gorsameth wrote:

Honestly I doubt Bernie will do much. He has shown no indication of actively supporting Clinton.

On July 06 2016 01:15 Mohdoo wrote:


Obama and Bernie will be enough to prevent this. Bernie won't likely be terribly active, but he'll throw enough shit out there to get decent turnout. I think Obama will be campaigning heavily. If nothing else, the Bernie machine is good at getting people to vote.

On July 06 2016 01:26 Mohdoo wrote:


I think he is prepared to do absolutely nothing if he gets absolutely nothing he wants. I think he's trying to play hardball and may actually be able to swing for some more influence after the attention this FBI stuff is gaining. Bernie is well poised to help the DNC by grabbing headlines to have finally endorsed Clinton. He can use this as a bargaining tool for getting more out of the DNC. I think the DNC needs him more now than they will later, so I hope Bernie cashes in now, or soon.

On July 06 2016 01:34 Rebs wrote:


And honestly if he makes common sense compromises to things he wants that would be a big achievement. Im not talking half measures but solid reform but practical that the Dems can push behind. Its not backtracking to compromise and get improvements. Thats literally the Republican way of thinking and its really annoying that those parallels dont hit him in the face sometimes.

In the nearly eight years since the first Littoral Combat Ship was delivered to the Navy, it hasn’t won many ardent fans beyond the Navy, its home-state lawmakers or the employees of the two shipbuilders producing dueling models. The ships’ maiden voyages have been marked by cracked hulls, engine failures, unexpected rusting, software snafus, weapons glitches and persistent criticism of how vulnerable they are to an attack.

“The ship is not reliable,” the Pentagon’s operational test and evaluation director said in a report released in January, only the most recent such judgment it has made. During 113 days of testing on one ship last year, some of the engines and water jets responsible for propelling the ship forward were out of commission for 45 days.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter expressed his concern last December by ordering the overall number of new ships trimmed from 52 to 40, saving billions of dollars. The department's leaders also ordered production scaled back from three to two ships in 2017 and said all the work should eventually go to just one of the two shipyards.

But lawmakers on Capitol Hill—provoked or perhaps inspired by a steady stream of contractor donations and unusually determined Navy lobbying—are now on the verge of ordering the Pentagon to build more than Carter wanted.

A defense appropriations bill moving toward Senate approval in coming days or weeks directs that $475 million be spent by the Navy to procure an extra Littoral Combat Ship next year. The House of Representatives has already passed legislation ordering that $384 million be spent on the extra ship. So it’s virtually certain to happen, a prospect that cheers the Navy greatly but has evoked dismay among the ships’ many critics.

The extra spending is a direct repudiation of the secretary of defense, putting the Navy back on track with its original three-ship production schedule for 2017—and pushing the decision about the fate and total size of the LCS fleet off to the next president.

The Obama administration “strongly objects” to buying the extra ship, the White House said in a budget message to Congress on June 14. It said just two are needed now to preserve a competition that “ensures the best price for the taxpayer on the remaining ships” and that spending more would needlessly drain funds from other military priorities, including undersea, surface and aviation programs. Carter made clear at the time he cut back the program that there’s no love lost between his office and the Navy’s command, which he accused in a blunt letter of ignoring technical risks, neglecting warfighting needs and prioritizing warship “quantity over lethality.”

The extra ship, which is part of a program with an estimated life-cycle cost of at least $45 billion, is just one in a long list of armaments that Congress is about to force the Pentagon to buy against its will—following an annual ritual that routinely pads spending for the nation’s defense by billions of dollars and sometimes gives U.S. soldiers equipment that doesn’t work or they don’t need.

On July 06 2016 01:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
*golfclap*



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On July 06 2016 01:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
*golfclap*



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On July 06 2016 02:07 biology]major wrote:
So the person who decides if they actually press charges or not was seen meeting with Bill Clinton, and also has the support of the entire Obama administration. Yeah this seems fair and balanced, in the same way Fox News is